Rick Riordan Quotes

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Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

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The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.

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But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

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What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.

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With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must've looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. How's it going? I said. I'll take the stairs. He hurried off.

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I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

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I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.

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I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

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You're that lady, Leo said. The one who was named after Caribbean music. Her eyes glinted murderously. Caribbean music. Yeah. Reggae? Leo shook his head. Merengue? Hold on, I'll get it. He snapped his fingers. Calypso!

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To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

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I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: You're blue.

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With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

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Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo—as pale and gaunt as he looked—might be more than he could handle.

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But how do we even get to the land of the dead? I asked. I mean…without dying.

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There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

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You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.

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Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.

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Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus." "That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not." "He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin." Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time.

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What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

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With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.

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A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. "Uhh, a vampire with-" "Don't mention the legs!" Tammi snapped. "It's rude to make fun.

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If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death.

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I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.

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A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.

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I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

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Thank Ra! She exclaimed. Yeah, I'm alive. No, I almost jumped in after you. I hate the water!

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His hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night. Percy Jackson

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Eternity with Artemis?" He heaved a big sigh. Thalia rolled her eyes. "You satyrs. You're all in love with Artemis. Don't you get that she'll never love you back?" "But she's so…into nature," Grover swooned. "You're nuts," said Thalia. "Nuts and berries," Grover said dreamily. "Yeah.

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Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand

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Two hundred Romans, and no one's got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There were many screaming Romans. Then the hand grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write. Frank looked at Percy with wide eyes. He mouthed: Can your sword do grenade form? Percy mouthed back, No. Shut up.

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